Sentences with phrase «less evidence of impact»

Not exact matches

Some evidence suggests that it could have less of an impact on heavy and problematic drinkers, who are less responsive to price and precisely those we want to stop drinking.

But there's mounting evidence that their efforts — including improved high - tech voter contact systems — are making an impact, especially given that tea partiers and parts of the GOP base are less - than - thrilled with Romney.

The Lib Dems argue that an alternative package of measures including the withdrawal of travel rights, more surveillance, unannounced home visits, and the use of intercept evidence to enable more prosecutions to go ahead would be more effective and have less impact on civil liberties.

However, without clear evidence of whether and when these messages prompt action, their impact may be far less than could be achieved.

Hospitals showed much less evidence of upcoding when states required detailed reporting that included the patient's identity, the impact of the infection, and its root cause.

«Although the impact of long - term use of e-cigarettes on health is still unknown,» the study stated, «the available scientific evidence indicates that e-cigarettes are less harmful than combustible cigarettes, and that smokers switching to e-cigarettes could benefit from a decrease in health risks related to smoking combustible cigarettes.»

Although sustainability guidelines are unlikely to be included in the final version of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the Advisory Committee included the following statement in their initial report: «Consistent evidence indicates that, in general, a dietary pattern that is higher in plant - based foods, such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds, and lower in animal - based foods is more health promoting and is associated with lesser environmental impact (greenhouse gas emissions and energy, land, and water use) than is the current average U.S. diet.

Absent persuasive evidence on the impact of efforts to raise the bar, some people have speculated that the rise of test - based accountability associated with NCLB and the ongoing push to establish more - rigorous teacher evaluation systems have made teaching less attractive and thereby contributed to further decline in the quality of the teaching corps.

The evidence used to adduce the negative impact of undermatch is that students attending less - selective institutions than they were qualified to attend graduated at lower rates than similar students attending more - selective institutions.

Although there is clear evidence from other studies that severe sleep deprivation can significantly impair mental functioning, the impact of lower amounts of sleep loss is less clear.

The chaotic nature of atmospheric solutions of the Navier - Stokes equations for fluid flow has great impact on weather forecasting (which we discuss first), but the evidence suggests that it has much less importance for climate prediction.

Moreover, the availability of historical precedent might imply less contestation (especially from climate skeptics), a cognitively different approach to what we might consider «sufficient evidence», and easier assessment of any given eruption against some objective measure of impacts.

However, our meta - analysis did find multiple lines of evidence of biases within our sample of articles, which were perpetuated in journals of all impact factors and related largely to how science is communicated: The large, statistically significant effects were typically showcased in abstracts and summary paragraphs, whereas the lesser effects, especially those that were not statistically significant, were often buried in the main body of reports.

Actually, by the time you approach 200ppmv for CO2, you have already reached the break point in the curve, beyond which additional CO2 has much less impact on the RF — and this is close to the glacial value — suggesting that CO2 changes do not drive the glacial cycles (CO2 changes are supposed to amplify T rise during deglaciation, but there is scant evidence for this and the assumption that it did also underlay the IPCC belief — and a great many references in academic papers give a T degrees C per ppmv CO2 without stating over which range of concentrations this is meant to apply.

-- so one might very well find much less urbanization and microsite impact in the USHCN network which has already been through one level of quality control — obviously not perfect, but still a substantial effort was made — to the ROW network where there is negligible evidence of comparable quality control — and, in the case of China, evidence that key QC efforts (e, g, something as simple as inspection of station history at all stations in network) were not done and claims to have done so were misrepresented in Jones et al 1990.

Furthermore, there is anecdotal evidence that the judgment is already having a positive impact on practice, with public authorities keen to explore less restrictive care arrangements in order to avoid a deprivation of liberty arising for disabled people in their care.

Alienating strategies include bad - mouthing or denigrating the other parent in front of the child (or within earshot), 2,3 limiting the child's contact with the other parent, 4 trying to erase the other parent from the child's mind (e.g., withholding pictures of the child with the other parent), 2 creating and perpetuating a belief the other parent is dangerous (when there is no evidence of actual danger), 2 forcing the child to reject the other parent, and making the child feel guilty if he or she talks about enjoying time with the other parent.2 The impact of these behaviors on children is devastating, but it also often has the opposite intended effect; parents who denigrate the other parent are actually less close with their children than those who do not.3

In partnership with researchers from related projects in Canada, the UK, South Australia, the Northern Territory and Western Australia, Aboriginal organisations and policymakers, we will analyse whole - of - population data for New South Wales (NSW) to investigate the determinants of positive early childhood development in Aboriginal children, and assess the impacts of two «real - world» programmes that were implemented under circumstances where evidence of their efficacy was unable to be derived from RCTs: the NSW Aboriginal and Maternal Infant Health Service (AMIHS) 45 and the NSW Department of Family and Community Services (FACS) Brighter Futures Program.46 Early evaluations of these programmes suggested some positive changes in proximal outcomes related to their objectives.45, 47, 48 However, each of these evaluations was limited by one or more of the following: use of single data sets, less than 2 years of outcome data and / or issues of confounding and selection bias.